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“The worst journey in the world”: The Arctic convoys of the Second World War

As a BBC documentary airs on the Second World War Arctic convoys, GH Bennett considers whether their achievements were worth the dangers they faced

Allied convoy PQ 17 is attacked by a German torpedo aircraft on its way across the Arctic Ocean, c1942. (Keystone/Hulton Archive/Getty Images)

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